Harley Givler began his study of music on the horn at age 12 in London, OH, and soloed with the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra on Mozart’s Concert Rondo just two years later.  After attending Interlochen Arts Camp, Harley was accepted to the year round Interlochen Academy for his last two years of high school.  Upon graduating, Harley attended The Eastman School of Music (BM) and Yale University (MM).  After completing his master’s degree, Harley moved to Fort Worth, Texas to teach and play professionally.  In addition to teaching forty students, Harley started central Texas’ first ever High School Horn Choir while also apprenticing with Houghton Custom Horns, a brass repair shop in Keller, TX.  Harley returned to the New York area in 2007 to pursue a doctoral degree at Stony Brook University.  He teaches at the Stony Brook Preparatory School and Music Academy of Long Island and maintains a private studio.  Harley has performed with professional orchestras across the country including, the Fort Worth Symphony, Richmond Symphony and Moscow Ballet Touring Orchestras.  Harley has attended the Aspen Music Festival, and International horn Symposiums in Valencia, Spain and Lahti, Finland.  Harley is currently studying with William Purvis at Stony Brook University and freelances in NYC. 

As a freelance bassoonist in the New York area, Keith Kreindler has appeared with many renowned orchestras and ensembles, including the Monodnock Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, and the Quintet of the Americas. He is a founding member of TABOR, an ensemble dedicated to expanding the sonorities of the traditional woodwind quintet and is proud of having performed at the Music Masters Course in Kazusa, Japan. As a saxophonist, Keith frequently performs baritone chair with the Mannes Saxophone Quartet, and his woodwind doubling has brought him to the pit of countless musicals, such as Roundabout Theatre’s 2007 Production of 110 in the Shade, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd Street, and West Side Story. An avid teacher, Keith was honored to have recently presented a masterclass to the saxophone and bassoonists from the Youth Orchestra of Medellín (Colombia) at the Society of the Americas, and has maintained a private saxophone, clarinet, and bassoon studio for several years. He is on the faculty of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College where he coaches chamber music, and the Rockland Conservatory of Music and the Concordia Conservatory of Music where he teaches theory, history, and private lessons. Keith has also given numerous coachings, educational programs, masterclasses, and instrument demonstrations with Quintet Tabor and the City Winds Trio. Keith received his MM at the Mannes College of Music and his BM from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. He also holds a BA in art from Binghamton University. Keith studied bassoon with Patricia Rogers, Laura Koepke and Edward Gobrecht, and saxophone with Allen Won and April Lucas.

A native of Michigan, oboist Karisa Werdon joined TABOR in 2007, bringing with her a wealth of chamber music experience. She has received awards at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, Chamber Music Yellow Springs, the Chesapeake National Chamber Music Competition, and the Yale Chamber Music Competition and has participated in the final rounds of many other prestigious competitions. Karisa will be a featured soloist on the upcoming New York City Electronic Music Festival in March 2009.  She has been featured in collaboration with artists such as Jens Lindeman, Stephen Taylor, Frank Morelli, Arthur Hass and Claude Frank, among others. 
Karisa is currently finishing her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University. An avid teacher, she has presented master classes at institutions such as Davidson College, Grand Valley State University and Furman University, along with teaching courses in music appreciation and history at Stony Brook University.  She currently is an instructor at CUNY Brooklyn Preparatory School, where she teaches theory and Dalcroze Eurhythmics; she also is the oboe instructor for the Stony Brook School and the InterSchool Orchestra program of New York City.  Karisa holds a Masters degree from Yale University and a Bachelors degree from Grand Valley State University.